United StatesCape Fox Land Entitlement Finalization Act of 2025
What it does
This act waives a statutory core township selection requirement for the Cape Fox Corporation and allows Cape Fox to receive other lands to fulfill its remaining land entitlement. Cape Fox is an Alaska Native village corporation for the Alaska Native village of Saxman, Alaska.
More detail
Specifically, the act states that Cape Fox shall not be required to receive its previously selected land of approximately 185 acres located within the township in which the Alaska Native village of Saxman, Alaska, is located. Instead, the act allows Cape Fox to receive land outside of Cape Fox's current exterior selection boundary upon written notice of the new selection to the Department of the Interior.
In particular, if Cape Fox submits written notice of its selection of approximately 180 acres of surface land within the Tongass National Forest in Alaska to Interior within 90 days of the act's enactment, then Interior must convey the federal land to Cape Fox. Upon conveyance of the surface estate of the federal land to Cape Fox, Interior must convey the subsurface estate of the federal land to Sealaska Corporation (the Alaska Native regional corporation representing southeastern Alaska).
The act reserves a public access easement on the federal land conveyed to Cape Fox and Sealaska.
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- Introduced
- Passed House
- Passed Senate
- To President
- Became Law
Looking ahead
No hearings or votes scheduled.
History
- 2026
- May 19Signed by President.Became Law
- May 19Became Public Law No: 119-93.Minor
- May 12Presented to President.To President
- Mar 3Message on Senate action sent to the House.
- Feb 26Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources discharged by Unanimous Consent.Minor
- Feb 26Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S697-699)Passed Senate
- 2025
- Dec 16Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
- Dec 15Mr. Stauber moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
- Dec 15Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H5879-5880)
- Dec 15DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 2815.
- Dec 15Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H5879-5880)Passed House
- Dec 15Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- Oct 31Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 119-354.
- Oct 31Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 306.
- Sep 17Subcommittee on Indian and Insular Affairs Discharged
- Sep 17Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
- Sep 17Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Unanimous Consent.
- May 20Subcommittee Hearings Held
- May 13Referred to the Subcommittee on Indian and Insular Affairs.
- Apr 10Introduced in House
- Apr 10Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.Introduced